Team Leader – Warehouse
Alliance Healthcare Posted on 2022-11-18
| Salary | £24,843 a year |
|---|---|
| Location | Croydon |
| Type | Other |
Job Description
About The Role
Did you know that Alliance Healthcare delivers to over 17,000 pharmacies, doctors, hospitals and health centres twice a day from across the UK?
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated team worker looking for the next step or a change in your career? Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role? If so we might have just what you are looking for!
About The Role
As a Team Leader in our warehouse you will be the first point of contact for team members in the achievement of daily targets, set by the management team, with a focus on guiding and developing your team.
Some of the roles you could be doing include:
- Driving the daily performance of warehouse operatives to achieve or exceed budgeted productivity and quality targets.
- Implement the daily staffing plan, ensuring optimum output at all times.
- Deliver training on operational processes including Good Distribution Practice (GDP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Conducting team briefings, training and 121s along with return to work interviews for initial absences
- Carry out duties in the warehouse such as picking, packing.
By becoming a Warehouse team leader, you will be responsible for leading a team in processing customer orders accurately and efficiently, assuring the in-time delivery of possible life-saving products.
Shift Pattern : Tuesday – Saturday 6am -2pm and 9am-6pm, rotating shifts.
Rates of Pay – We offer pay of £12.74 per hour, additional overtime is available when required.
About You
- Previous experience in a warehouse environment including knowledge of Warehouse and Distribution Processes
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to use your own initiative
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Excellent time management
- Previous experience of leading a small team would be highly desirable.
Due to the nature of the position, you will need to be capable of standing and walking for long periods of time as well as bending and lifting in line with Health and Safety Regulations.
We can offer a good quality working environment for our team as well as varied benefits targeted to your wellbeing both within and outside work:
- Employee assistance programme with legal and financial advisors as well as mental health counselling.
- Perks at Work with discounts in various retailers as Currys PC World, Samsung, John Lewis and more
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Contributory Pension Scheme after 3-month service
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Service Based Holidays
- Career Development and internal progression opportunities including the possibility of standing in for your line manager in their absence.
About The Company
Alliance Healthcare is a leading distributor and wholesaler of pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare products and part of the backbone of the NHS.
Our service centres play a pivotal role in the success of our business and are responsible for ensuring that we deliver potentially life-saving medicines to an extensive network of local customers on a twice daily basis
Everything we do will impact the end user, the patient. It is our responsibility to offer reliable service that ensures that our customers receive the product needed, where and when they need it.
Our diversity and inclusion vision is to create a culture where we value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to powering greater collaboration and innovation, inspiring us to help people across the UK lead healthier and happier lives.
Company description:
Alliance Healthcare is one of the leading distributors and wholesalers of pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare products in the UK. We deliver products to all of the nation »s 16,500 dispensing points — community pharmacies, dispensing doctors and hospitals. Through our network of distribution centres, we provide twice daily delivery to our customers throughout the UK. We pride ourselves on the consistently high service levels we provide to our customers — frequency of delivery, product availability, delivery accuracy, timeliness and reliability at competitive prices. We also offer pharmacists innovative added-value services which help them to develop their own businesses. We work closely with pharmaceutical manufacturers who are increasingly changing and adapting their approaches to distribution. Find out more about our history, what we do, our mission and values, and our management team by visiting our website www.alliance-healthcare.co.uk.
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